Book

Everybody's war : the politics of aid in the Syria crisis

ed. by Jehan Bseiso, Michiel Hofman, and Jonathan Whittall ; with a forword by Amani Ballour

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

XVIII, 220 p. ; 24 cm

978-0-19-751464-1

English

Index

This book explores the history of health care in postcolonial state-making and the fragmentation of the health system in Syria during the conflict. It analyzes the role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in enabling attacks on health facilities and distinguishes the differences between humanitarian solutions and refugee populations’ expectations. It also describes the way in which humanitarian actors have fed the war economy. The book highlights the lived experience of siege in all its layers. It examines how humanitarian actors have become part of the information wars that have raged throughout the past ten years and how they have chosen to position themselves in the face of grave violations of IHL.

• 2021, Chapter, Naming and shaming the bombers / Michiel Hofman
• 2021, Chapter, The moral norm, the law, and the limits of protection for wartime medical units / Neve Gordon